Example

Linguistic enthnocentrism means believing that one’s own cultural speech style is the best and that others are inferior. For example, as a young child, I was sent to speech therapy because I pronounced ‘wash’ as ‘warsh’; my mother grew up in Appalachia and I learned to pronounce ‘wash’ this way from her. Apparently, at that time, in western New York schools, this dialect was considered pathological, and this is an example of linguistic ethnocentrism. The following youtube excerpt from the video American Tongues shows a variety of speakers exhibiting linguistic ethnocentrism vis-a-vis several U.S. dialects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vF9g37FCmk
By: Kathleen McInerney May 28

Chapter 1

Phonological system
Lexicon
Syntax
Semantics
Ethnocentrism
communication
code
Phonology
synchrony
morphology
prevarication
Broca's Area
Wernicke's Area
Wernicke's Aphasia
Broca's Aphasia
Recursion
Looking Glass Self
ASL
grammar
linguistic performance
linguistic competence
Grammar
Clever Hans effect
Nonverbal communication
Culture shock
pheremone
Sound spectrograph
bird calls
bird sounds
Openness
Arbitrary
stimulus-bound
Displacement